NipaPlay

NipaPlay is now available on two new platforms and includes a wide range of improvements and fixes across all supported platforms. New Platforms • HarmonyOS is now officially supported. NipaPlay runs on HarmonyOS devices with hardware video decoding, Surface rendering, and OHAudio output. Local settings, SQLite, file and photo pickers, screen brightness, volume control, and wake lock are all integrated. JavaScript plugins and torrent functionality are supported as well. • Apple TV (tvOS) is now officially supported. The full app experience — media library, anime browsing, account, settings, plugins, search, and playback — has been adapted for the TV remote and large-screen navigation. You can enter text by scanning a QR code from a phone or browser. Playback uses the Erika engine with a dark theme by default. New Features and Improvements • A trending rankings section has been added to the home screen, with three sorting options: overall hot, rising, and new-season hot. The rankings include automatic retry and caching so occasional network errors have less impact. On mobile, the full list appears in a pull-up sheet; on desktop, it opens in a separate window with a frosted-glass effect. • The desktop rankings window has been redesigned with a sort dropdown, highlighted top-three entries, and a poster grid layout. Spacing, card text, and accent colors have been refined. Tablet users will no longer see desktop-only entries such as external call shortcuts, keyboard shortcut settings, and the open-log-path option. • WebDAV and SMB remote media paths now use a new Base URL format, fixing an issue where changing server settings caused all media matches to stop working. The plugin system API has been extended to allow launching external executables. • Danmaku (comment overlay) rendering has been improved: emoji font metrics are fixed so emoji and plain text no longer collide incorrectly; sending a danmaku comment no longer reloads the full list or drops emoji; your own comments are now highlighted with a green outline; and spacing for certain monospace narrow characters has been corrected. Bug Fixes • Fixed crashes, corrupted frames, flickering, and a blue-screen issue with libmpv on Linux systems using NVIDIA GPUs. Danmaku rendering avoids the Next2 engine on Linux/NVIDIA to prevent driver-level crashes. CUDA/NVDEC is now preferred over VAAPI/VDPAU when an NVIDIA GPU is actively rendering. • Fixed an issue in the Erika player where resuming playback could start before a seek completed, leaving the video frame blank until the user manually scrubbed. Danmaku shadow style changes now sync to Erika in real time. The video background in windowed mode no longer turns solid black. • Fixed a leftover Erika native overlay that remained on screen after exiting the player, causing the home screen to appear broken. Overlay state is now correctly managed during full-screen transitions and playback resume. • Fixed WebDAV and SMB playlists and auto-play-next failing after the Base URL format change introduced in a previous update. • Fixed an issue on Windows where certain dialogs appeared to freeze the app after a Flutter update caused them to be promoted to hidden native windows. Media library sort, Emby/Jellyfin sort, and manual match dialogs now stay within the main Flutter view. Emby/Jellyfin sort highlighting, checkmarks, focus, and auto-scroll position have been restored. • Fixed the iOS file picker failing when using the backup feature. • Fixed a timing issue on Windows with the libmpv engine that caused audio volume to be lower than expected. • Added in-process caching for WebDAV and SMB media library management to improve loading speed. • Fixed the iOS system file picker failing when triggered from the player. • Fixed clearing match information causing playback history to be lost.